Tagged with: Junior Fa
Joseph Parker, former heavyweight world title holder, fights Deontay Wilder, former heavyweight world title holder, on Sunday NZT over in Saudia Arabia. The second headliner of the so-called Day of Reckoning
Three kiwi boxers fighting in the same overseas event? You don’t get that every week, that’s for sure. But old mate Lou DiBella and Bob Arum/Top Rank had a big one in Melbourne on Sunday arvo
Two things were clear as Aotearoa’s most significant ever clash of heavyweight boxers took place last weekend. One was that Junior Fa was being seriously underrated by a lot of people. The other was that the respective strengths of the two fighters was always going to make a knockout victory for either dude extremely unlikely.
We’ve been through the intricate negotiations, we’ve been through the injury delay, we’ve been through the promotional yarns, we’ve been through the niggly back and forth between camps (mostly), and on Saturday night the hype becomes reality as the most consequential local heavyweight clash in history takes place.
In two weeks’ time there’s a rather significant boxing match gonna take place. Joseph Parker versus Junior Fa, you may have heard about it?
It’s the biggest heavyweight fight we’ve ever seen between two New Zealand boxers and it’s a fight that never would have happened if everything had gone to plan. Two pugilists whose rivalry tracks back more than a decade to their amateur days.
After the crisis comes the recovery, the picking up of the pieces and getting back to something equating normality. For Joseph Parker that means getting into the ring and fighting.
It took all of about fifteen seconds for Joseph Parker to take control of his scrap with Alex Leapai. He came out looking sharp, throwing those quick hands around and looking to hit in combinations. Parker trapped Leapai on the ropes later in that first round and copped him with a few mean hooks while his jab was a constant force from the opening bell.
We haven’t heard much from Joseph Parker lately. Since bouncing back with a routine win in December, knocking out Alexander Flores in the third round in Christchurch, old mate’s been laying pretty low.